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Level 30

I've only used Avira once or twice in VMs so I cannot speak for it, but each time I've used Kaspersky on an actual machine, it slowed it to the point of being unusable; and I'm not talking about some old slow poke XP machine either. I gave Kaspersky several chances, each and every time it either crashed the system or made it unusable (or almost unusable). I'm not saying it doesn't have great protection, it does, I just simply won't ever use it because of the multiple system gunk-ups it caused.

I wouldn't exactly call Kaspersky light but I used it's trial once while I was traveling in China and I the load is quite manageable. The only points of slow down that I can remember would be when you plug in a flash drive and it goes to auto scan it, and another thing is when it's downloading and applying an update. But bitdefender has the same issues so I wouldn't consider it to be a huge flaw

yigido

Actually, Avira is not bad at all. It has no zero-day capabilities maybe but it has very good Heuristic and signatures than other free AVs. Maybe Avira Free has the best signatures on the free market area. PUP/PUA detections are great on this product. If a file is unknown by APC..the Avira Free uploads the file to cloud (only executable files uploaded, good for privacy) The cloud analyze takes 10 seconds and results come. It will be good or bad.
Avira products are decent antivirus with its Avira Protection Cloud. It needs zero knowledge and configuration.
In my opinion, Avira is the best free antivirus. These are my latest experiences on latest Avira Free build.
On surfing web, Avira Launcher offers Avira Browser Security and it is not bad on malicious-phishing URL blocking.

Level 18

I think the best bet is ESET
analyzing the percentages of of false positives, ESET gets the 4th or 5th place.
But Avira has really very good signatures, yet that does not have high-efficiency on zero-day malware and this can be a serious problem.

a curious fact: AVG beat MCAFEE

in these graphs we always have to take the percentage of false positives to have a rigorous analysis.

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